A Manhattan judge blasted the unlicensed teen menace who fatally struck 4-year-old Ariel Russo last year – then while out on bail was arrested again in three separate incidents – as a serious flight risk.

“This defendant has fled from the authorities now three times,” said Justice Gregory Carro denying bail to Franklin Reyes at a hearing Thursday. “The first time with grave consequences to a little girl. The second time with injury to a law enforcement officer. The third time no one was injured but this defendant is a severe flight risk.”

He added, “The second incident involved him driving a car and I don’t know why he was driving that car after what happened the first time.”

Defense lawyer Martin Schmukler unwisely argued that Reyes had a good reason to be driving without a license again – he was trying to rescue his father.

“There’s something you don’t know about that second incident,” he said. “The defendant’s father had been accosted.”

“He didn’t know where his father was,” answered Schmukler, who failed to address how Reyes was rushing to his father’s aid if he didn’t know his whereabouts.

Prosecutor Vera Varshavsky said Reyes told her a very different story.

“I spent hours with the defendant following his second arrest asking him why he was driving despite killing a four-year-old girl and he never mentioned this fantastic tale,” she said. “He said he was in the car because he was hungry and that’s why he left his aunt’s house.”

Reyes, 18, was busted Aug. 31 for driving without a license after city cops pulled him over for allegedly making an illegal turn.

He had been out on bail for the manslaughter rap in Russo’s death at the time. Instead of stopping, Reyes stepped on the gas, dragging an officer 100 feet, according to the complaint.

Only a week later, Reyes bolted from DA investigator escorts as they left a hospital where he’d sought treatment for an injured leg. As authorities loaded the uncuffed teen terror into a Correction Department van, he tossed away his crutches and took off running.

Reyes was already in hot water from earlier this summer, when he was arrested on petit larceny raps for allegedly looting a deceased woman’s pad with his father, who was a super in her building.